ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

One problem with leaving the birdsite is that I had built up a reasonable list of illustrators to follow there, and I really haven't here. But I bet they're around. If you're a #fantasy or #sciencefiction or #comedy #illustrator, especially if you're interested in commissions from an author, give this post a like so I can check out your work. Or recommend me someone in the comments. Or boost this so more people see it. Or just tell me what good hashtags I should be following.
#illustration #sff

James Baldwin said it best. #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #JamesBaldwin

Marion attorney withdraws search warrant against Kansas newspaper; returns items https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/marion-county-attorney-withdraws-search-warrant-against-kansas-newspaper-returns-items

We don’t deserve dogs. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

#Dogs #Love #ServiceDogs #Dog

@StillIRise1963
I hate white Supremacy just as much. We got years of death threats and vandalism when we moved into a formerly restricted "white" suburb in 1971. That was just for being brown, I can't begin to understand how bad it is for black people.

High school sound track: Section: Forbidden music. Subsection: Andrew's boom box collection. This song is called My First Christmas As a Woman. It's a punk track, and it may not even appeal to my trans friends. But, I'm putting it here anyway, because it survived the anti-cult library purge.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vlbcz60z42wctfo9hdzbu/The-Vandals-My-First-Christmas-As-A-Woman.mp3?rlkey=2d6io6ve6x705ec8wegc193aa&dl=0

Amplify #Bidenomics, IRA: Rural Mingo Co, WV, is one of America’s poorest counties. ~1/3 of its residents live below the poverty line, only 1/3 of its pop. is employed & countless lives -upended by opioid addiction. But this community scored a badly needed win this Apr when Adams Fork Energy & CNX Resources unveiled plans to build the nation’s largest clean ammonia PROD facility there.
The $3B project -expected to support 2,000 CONST jobs & generate an influx of tax rev. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/16/economy/jobs-inflation-reduction-act-clean-energy/index.html

Stian Jensen, Director of the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General, stated Ukraine should cede territory to Putin in exchange for NATO membership. Giving a prize for genocide is absolutely a recipe for disaster. #FireJensen
#StandWithUkraine

#USA
Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia case to federal court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9616oXBZA0

@ScottSoCal
I’m still struggling with the #s as someone who owned a chevy geo in the 90s (50 mpg, struggled to go up hills I’ll admit 😂) A honda fit in the 00s (~50 mpg) & the prius c (I’m a small car lover 🚙) that just got totaled (also ~50 mpg). Feels like opportunties to truly improve mpg have existed in the last 30 years. Not dissing the better mileage some sedans & trucks are getting but ….Im also seriously depressed we dont have flying cars yet so I have lots of issues 🤷🏼‍♀️

https://t.me/liveukraine_media/12809
⚡️🇺🇦The installation of the Ukrainian coat of arms on the Motherland monument will be completed by August 23. The builders have already sewn up the shield with metal, and now they are welding the plates of the shield and trident. The Ministry of Culture says that the work is on schedule. #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/california-murrieta-valley-outing-trans-kids-school-board/ #LGBTQ

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/biden-climate-bill-inflation-reduction-act
If you are thinking about buying an electric car, just be aware dealers have marked these up by $10K thereby negating the rebate and you still pay an extra ~$2500. The Capitalists really do want to kill the planet.
#EVs
#RebateMarkUps
#CapitalistGreed

you're telling me julius caesar, who has been dead for thousands of years, made this salad?

Hi folks — there’s no issue of The Counteroffensive today. Unfortunately I’ve been hospitalized in Kyiv due to a bad infection.

I’m on the mend. However, it’s unclear whether our insurance will cover this stay.

Don't want to tell anyone how to live their life, but I have learned recently that if you remember to put grounds in the filter the coffee is a lot better.

Looks like Jack Smith obtained Trump’s Twitter data, including “some volume” of his DMs. Elon’s people tried to delay production and wanted to tell Trump about the warrant, but they got smacked down and hit with sanctions. Shows whose side Musk was on, huh?

Thinking about the three spectrums of wellness, which are baked into how we experience the world:

I am broken/ I am whole.
I am at risk/ I am safe.
I am lost/ I am home.

How are you doing?
@actuallyautistic

I still can't stop thinking about the guy who advised people to apply for jobs even if they don't meet the minimum requirements, because he succeeded at it all the time - and then buried in the replies revealed how all these jobs had involved personal introductions to the employer by friends.